Hello my pretties...I hope you enjoyed the last chapter. Alex's blades name is Akira, my mistake if I call it Akiva or Avira, they are both names from a book. Hope you love this chapter!


It was not long after Jack watched the forest burn down that he headed back to the Guardians, sure that whatever he had seen or found out they would want to know. Jack had met the Prince of Fire before (note: Jack calls him Fire King to his face because since Alex is the Prince of Fire he is not the Fire King and he takes it as an insult to the actual Fire King, who is long dead, and died honorably. Jack likes to mock him.)

On multiple occasions Jack had been happily spreading winter (minding his own business, he might add) when a demented kid with weird eyes and black hair that looked like he had cut it himself, melted all the snow and flew off, and not without mocking the Winter spirit to his face also. And the stupid kid had also nearly beat Jack up when Jack had come upon a beautiful garden of flowers, each intricate and beautifully different, and he had frosted them all over, believing they would look more pretty that way.

But Jack still liked him a bit, and every time he saw the other it sent thrills down his spine.

But the third time Jack had met Alexander Flare he had been with Pitch, and Jack was Pitch's enemy, which meant now that The Prince of Fire was his enemy, which meant no more crushes and small pranks, and watching him create a garden of different flowers every Monday for a certain beautiful, black haired green eyed girl.

He had felt betrayed when he found that the nightmare king and Alex were allied, and Alex was his son at that, and he had slowly forgotten about the other spirit, until now, when he had unleashed something so terrifying Jack feared that Pitch might use him in the next battle.

Pitch wasn't strong enough yet, but maybe the Prince of Fire was.

Jack made his way to the pole and alighted on a windowsill, knocking erratically until Phil the yeti finally opened the window and grunted something in yetish.

Jack greeted his old friend and told Phil to get North to call the other Guardians because there was an emergency. It took two tries before Phil understood, and he dashed off, guiding the Winter spirit to North's office, where the large man didn't question Jack, but sent the aurora borealis out into the night sky, then he waited, talking with Jack while they stood in the globe room.

The lights were still flickering merrily on the globe, and nothing seemed to be off.

A hole in the ground appeared, and so did E. Aster Bunnymund, the Easter Bunny, quickly followed by the Sandman, Sandy, in his plane made of sand, and then the Tooth Fairy, Tooth.

And they all waited expectantly for an explanation.

"Uh, so, you ever heard of Alexander Flare?" No. everybody shook their heads. Jack sighed, of course not.

"The Prince of Fire." Maybe. What did he look like? Was he like the Fire King?

"He's Pitch's son, ever heard of him?" Yes. Yes. He's 520 years old right?

Disgruntled at the lack of knowledge about Pitch's son Jack went to work explaining.

Sometime when he was describing how Alex was related to Pitch the moon called out to them, and they all looked at it, perplexed, and Jack wondered if Alex could really be a threat to gain the MiM's attention, until the man in moon set his light on the carving on the ground, and large crystal rose from it, and with it, a new guardian.

And it wasn't who they were expecting.